FOUR YEARS FOR BUTTY'S SLAYING

COFFEE shop killer Kadir Bakar faces deportation after he serves the four year sentence he was handed yesterday for the slaying of his

business partner.

Bakar, of Prospect Street, west Reading, was jailed after a jury at Kingston Crown Court convicted him of manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility.

The sentence means Bakar could be released as early as the start of next summer - taking into account time held on remand - but on release he could be sent back to Turkey.

Judge Charles Tilling warned Bakar he would recommend his deportation after the Crown revealed yesterday he had no legal status in the UK.

Bakar battered to death his business partner Necati Samiloglu with a makeshift cosh in the kitchen of Butty's Coffee House after a row about money.

Mr Samiloglu's bloodied body was then left inside the Station Road café while Bakar served customers before he closed up and dumped the corpse in woodland near Ipsden in South Oxfordshire.

Unfortunately for Bakar his wallet fell out as he ditched the body and the next day police realised they had their man.

Detective constable Mark Tutton said: "A lot of detectives spent a huge amount of time and effort investigating this case for the last 18 months and we are disappointed he was not convicted of murder.

"But we accept the decision of the court and this sentence."

Sentencing Bakar, Judge Tilling said: "This jury have found that your responsibility for the killing was diminished by your mental state.

"However, this was a ferocious attack and following the killing you took steps to cover up your guilt.

"It is no doubt that to you Mr Samiloglu had not made any real contribution to the business and you may have felt a legitimate sense of grievance."

But he added: "In view of the nature of this conviction together with the fact that you have been in trouble in the past, I shall recommend that on the termination of your sentence you will be deported."

Bakar was handed a further year sentence, to be served concurrently, after he admitted perverting the course of justice in January this year by hiding Mr Samiloglu's body.

Defence counsel Miss Anita Surran urged the court to be as lenient as possible on Bakar, a man she described as vulnerable.

She said: "The jury have clearly accepted that he does suffer from a subtle brain pathology, which affects his responsibility.

"He [Bakar] does have the mental age of a child. He functions at the level of a child and, indeed, when he is spoken to his reactions, responses and answers to questions are that of a child.

"I would invite your honour to consider the absolute minimum sentence your honour can impose under the circumstances."